The Police have uncovered a shooting range at Tema Community 3 where armed do their shooting rehearsals before launching their attacks on innocent and law abiding citizens.
The suspected armed robbers had created their new improvised shooting range at the Ramsar site at Tema where they use empty plastic bottles as their targets.
The move by the police follows a robbery attack by these suspects at the Tema Heavy Industrial area at 2am on Saturday where they attacked a steel manufacturing company, robbing a Chinese expatriate of his valuable items.
They were busily rehearsing when the police stormed their hideout following a tip-off. The suspects upon seeing the police opened fire on them and the police returned fire killing one instantly.
Two others are currently on the run and are being hunted by the police. A total of 72 cartridges and several empty plastic bottles which served as targets for the shooting rehearsals were retrieved by the police.
At a media briefing Sunday, the Tema Regional Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Juliana Obeng urged the public to help the police arrest the suspects.
““If you live in an area or you are working at the hospital and you see somebody with gunshot wounds, kindly alert the police so we can follow up and arrest these persons.”
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